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(LINCOLN). [ANON.]. Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia. New York: Bromley & Co., 1865. Second edition. 8vo. 251 pp. Illus. Orig. cloth. $350.00

 

Wright II, 1542, for the first edition of 1864. Hamilton, p. 87 for Burr, and # 998 for Lusk. Sabin & BAL disavow possible authorship by Seba Smith or Charles A. Davis, both of whom lived a few years past the end of the war. Sabin 84179. This is the edition of 1864 published by Bromley and Feeks, with a printed slip pasted over the date and Feeks' name in the imprint, providing the date 1865, and the statement, "second edition." NUC records two copies of this edition. The anonymous author ridicules Lincoln's war policies.